[–] 19 points 3 days ago (5 children)

The detail in the distortion the glass causes around the edges is peak! Everything else looked so good I immediately checked the edges and was delighted to see the distortion!

No notes, 10/10!

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  • Dolly (thelemmy.club)
     

    I'm just not ready for her to be gone.

    We have several of her books in our house and have read them to our granddaughter.

    Several of her songs and covers of those songs have permanent space on my playlists.

    I'm just happy I got to live at a time where I got to experience her art as she was making it and the impact she had on is as she was doing it.

    💔

    Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mu44zyd3bc2e

    [–] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    The ethical stuff is a real issue, not just how the training is derived but wealth inequality being accelerated and so on.

    That said if you find yourself in a place where it's "use AI or lose your job", using AI is probably best unless you're independently wealthy already.

    And if you're in that place, don't use it wrong. Make sure to train the AI you're using on correct (and ethically sourced) materials. GPTs your company pays for will have a path to this for example.

    Just asking an untrained AI specific questions about your work isn't likely to end well. And then people give up on the tool and eventually lose their job over it.

    It sucks ass, and I expect down votes for even sharing this. But I know too many people who have been let go and are really struggling to find another job. So do what you need you do to keep feeding your family.

    And vote against the assholes putting us in this place. Join a Union if you can, etc.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

    I had given up on my art after decades of no progress. I spent the time I would have spent on improving my art (and many other things) on raising my children instead.

    When A1111 came out I tried it and was trying to train it on my old art. I thought maybe AI can bridge the gap in my technical shortcomings.

    I got frustrated that I couldn't get it to replicate my style so I bought a wacom knockoff to fill in the blanks where the AI struggled. That lead to more actual practice and me getting better without AI and shortly there after giving up on AI image generation.

    Now I can do some pretty good stuff I could never do two or three years ago. And the be toy that is AI got me started again.

    I never considered anything I did with A1111 to be "art", it was a toy I was trying to push to its limits and that processes got me back into a hobby I love.

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    As I shared in a few places in March I was laid off. It took 7 weeks to get a job offer. In that time we considered selling the house, moving someplace where we can live on a lot less, etc. We had 1.5 years before we had to make scary choices but still.

    Today the COO said she's scheduling a meeting with me and the CEO (and a few others) to review my progress! Everyone including her is really excited about what we're accomplishing.

    I'm doing tippy taps and thought I'd share!!!

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